2008 Prize Winners
The second annual Manchester Student Prize
ceremony took place on 9th July 2008 at Manchester University.
This year it had been decided to split the prize into two streams
- one for people reading maths or statistics and another for the rest. The standard of the work of
all entrants was very commendable and the winners in particular are to be congratulated.
After much deliberation, the final winners were:
| Maths and Stats Stream |
| Gold |
Vanessa Rigby |
Manchester University |
Statistical inference for epidemics |
| Silver |
Helen Cumberland |
Sheffield University |
Medical statistics: survival analysis |
| Bronze |
Susanna Rogers |
Sheffield University |
Statistical approaches in the timing of animal
extinctions |
| Non-maths and stats Stream |
| Silver |
Lam Chung (Stan) Yan |
Bangor Business School |
Political institutions and economic growth - an empirical
investigation |
We were honoured to have the Society Vice-President Sheila Bird to present the prizes although
Stan was unfortunately not available to receive his and his tutor John Goddard deputised.

(left to right - is Vanessa Rigby, Susanna Rogers, Sheila Bird,
Helen Cumberland and John Goddard)
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